Grants

Program Grants

The Aaron Copland fund awards grants to organizations that encourage artistic excellence in, and public appreciation of, contemporary American music. Non-profits and professional musicians are eligible, students are not eligible.

UW-Madison School of Education (SOE) Grand Challenges Grants

The Grand Challenges initiative will inspire, facilitate, and support interdisciplinary teams that design innovative solutions for critical social problems. Transform Grant proposals may include research projects and other innovative programs designed to a make sustainable community impact.

Public Humanities Projects grants support projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history, or to address issues in contemporary life.

Grants are made for scholarly exhibitions at museums; curatorial research; visual arts programming at artist-centered organizations; artist residencies and commissions; arts writing; and efforts to promote the health, welfare and first amendment rights of artists.

The Wisconsin Humanities Council (WHC) supports programs that use history, culture, and discussion to strengthen community life for everyone in Wisconsin. Any nonprofit organization in the state of Wisconsin, or unincorporated group, may apply for funding.

The Wisconsin Humanities Council (WHC) supports programs that use history, culture, and discussion to strengthen community life for everyone in Wisconsin. Any nonprofit organization in the state of Wisconsin, or unincorporated group, may apply for funding.

Annual Deadline: February 1, May 1, August 1

Individual Artist Grants

a2ru is pleased to announce a new Faculty Fellow Grant Program, designed to help early career faculty (without tenure) from partner
institutions defray some of the expense associated with travel, lodging, and registration to present or perform their research or practice in integrative
fields in the arts at national or international conferences.

Arts Midwest Touring Fund engages people in meaningful experiences with the fine arts of dance, music, theater or musical theater, and other
performing arts forms. Grants are made directly to presenting organizations in Arts Midwest’s nine-state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan,
Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and

The Fulbright Program is committed to providing opportunities for American and foreign artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, and musicians to
showcase their creativity. A large number of Fulbright grants are offered to applicants in the performing and visual arts each year.

The Harpo Foundation's grants for visual artists provide direct support to under-recognized artists 21 years or older. Grants are made to support the
development of an artist's work and may be used in any activity toward that purpose.

Each year, the Harpo Foundation awards two residency fellowships to Native artists at the Vermont Studio Center. Each Fellow receives a one-month
residency, which includes room and board, a private studio, access to distinguished visiting artists, and a travel stipend.

USArtists International supports performances by U.S. artists at important cultural festivals and arts marketplaces around the globe. Committed to the
presence of U.S. based artists on world stages, USArtists International provides grants to ensembles and individual performers in dance, music, and
theatre invited to perform at significant international festivals and performing arts markets.

Bromley Research Conference Travel Grants are awarded based on a competitive application process to eligible L&S Honors students for presentation
and/or attendance at regional or national professional conferences.

Deadline: late April

Research Grants

Advancing scholarship by awarding fellowships and strengthening relations among learned societies is central to the American Council of Learned
Societies. Other activities include support for scholarly conferences, reference works, and scholarly communication innovations.

Collaborative Research grants support groups of two or more scholars engaging in significant and sustained research in the humanities. The program
seeks to encourage interdisciplinary work, both within the humanities and beyond.